Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
EDMUND SPENSERFor evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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 gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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 easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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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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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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