Together linkt with adamantine chains.
EDMUND SPENSERFull little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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