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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

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

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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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

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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

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

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

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