Dissensions, like small streams at first begun,
	Unseen they rise, but gather as they run.

Garth.    

	Civil dissension is a viperous worm
	That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

Shakespeare.    

	If they perceive dissension in our looks
	And that within ourselves we disagree,
	How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
	To wilful disobedience and rebel!

Shakespeare.    

	Alas! how light a cause may move
	Dissension between hearts that love!
	Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
	And sorrow but more closely tied;
	That stood the storm, when waves were rough,
	Yet in a sunny hour fall off.

Moore.