The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERMen, 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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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 delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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