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.
EDMUND SPENSERA 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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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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But times do change and move continually.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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