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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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

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

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

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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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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

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

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

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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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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

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I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

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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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