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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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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 flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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

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ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

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Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

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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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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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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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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

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