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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 new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.

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

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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!

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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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

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Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill 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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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

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

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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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What if this present were the world's last night?

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But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

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