The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSERWhat more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Sweet 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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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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