For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
EDMUND SPENSERSweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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Men, 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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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 one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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