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.
EDMUND SPENSERSuch is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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