Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
EDMUND SPENSERGather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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But times do change and move continually.
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