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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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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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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

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

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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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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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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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

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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

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

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

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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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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

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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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