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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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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 mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

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That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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