Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
EDMUND SPENSERMy Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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 there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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