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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

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

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.

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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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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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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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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

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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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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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