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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Edmund Spenser

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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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
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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Betrayal Man Manner Mindset
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
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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Day Fear Feed Goodness Hell Hope Night Sorrow Speed Unknown Wasted
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Day Flower Life Mortal Pass
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Best Contentment Mindset Noble One Liner
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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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World

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