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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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Great sorrows cannot speak.

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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

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

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Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

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

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

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

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