Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
EDMUND SPENSERGather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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