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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

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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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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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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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Death, thou shalt die.

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

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Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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