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On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

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I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

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Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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