"Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay." — Edmund Spenser
"Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay."
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Edmund Spenser
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64 Quotes by Edmund Spenser
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Then came October, full of merry glee.
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The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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More Discord Quotes
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom…
— Christina Aguilera
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
— Joseph Addison
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— Heraclitus
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live…
— Immanuel Kant
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
— Khalil Gibran
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
— George Perkins Marsh
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them…
— Saint Augustine
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Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only…
— Pope Pius XII
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