Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
EDMUND SPENSERFondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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