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

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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

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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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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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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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

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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

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

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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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