All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
EDMUND SPENSERAll that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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 that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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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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