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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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

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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

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Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

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

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All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

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

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

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