Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
EDMUND SPENSERBeauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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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.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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But times do change and move continually.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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