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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

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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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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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

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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

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