What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSERFor there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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