In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSERAll for love, and nothing for reward.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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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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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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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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