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I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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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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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

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

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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

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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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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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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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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

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