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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

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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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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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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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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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

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

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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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

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