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

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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

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

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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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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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

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I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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Death, thou shalt die.

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

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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

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