Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
EDMUND SPENSERUnhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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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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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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