And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSERHow many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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No 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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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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