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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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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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I am a little world made cunningly.

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

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

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

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

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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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This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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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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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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