"Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill."
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"Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution."
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"That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so."
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"Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so."
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"Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is."
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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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"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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"A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present."
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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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"That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies."
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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? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time."
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"A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine."
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"My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die."
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"'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's."
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"Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together."
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"Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you."
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"Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today."
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"And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect."
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"There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality."
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"Great sorrows cannot speak."
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