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Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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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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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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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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In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

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

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...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

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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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