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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Edmund Spenser

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
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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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Myself Promise Reason Season Time
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
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
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
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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Greatness Growth Hard Hold Low Oneself Suffering
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
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
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
My 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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Cold Desire Fire Greatness Growth Hard Love Myself
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

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