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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

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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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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

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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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Kind pity chokes my spleen.

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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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