Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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But times do change and move continually.
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