All for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSERJoy 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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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