Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
EDMUND SPENSERSo let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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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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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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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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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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