The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERNo dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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