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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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My love though silly is more brave.

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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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Kind pity chokes my spleen.

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Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

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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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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

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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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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

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