Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
EDMUND SPENSERAll flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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 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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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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For 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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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