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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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we give each other a smile with a future in it

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

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

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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

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

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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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Kind pity chokes my spleen.

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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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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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