Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
EDMUND SPENSERThrough 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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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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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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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