"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."
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"We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs."
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"If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser."
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"Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred."
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"Lust-bred diseases rot thee."
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"I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages."
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"This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke."
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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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"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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"But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep."
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"Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is."
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"Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries."
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"Death, thou shalt die."
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"And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night."
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"I find no abhorring in my appetite."
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"Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none."
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"All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain."
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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 man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot."
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"Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love."
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"If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that."
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