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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

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