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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

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

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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

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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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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

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How imperfect is all our knowledge!

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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

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

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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

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My love though silly is more brave.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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