Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
EDMUND SPENSERFor that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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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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But times do change and move continually.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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Full 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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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