Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
EDMUND SPENSERMake haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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