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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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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

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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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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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

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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

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

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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

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