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.
EDMUND SPENSERLike as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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