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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

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I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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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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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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How imperfect is all our knowledge!

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

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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

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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

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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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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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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

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