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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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Friends are ourselves.

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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we give each other a smile with a future in it

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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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Friends are ourselves.

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