"The best mirror is an old friend."
"I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it."
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Source: The lullings and the relishes of it. 'The Pearl', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).
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