How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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 if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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