Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
EDMUND SPENSERFrom 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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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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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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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