"There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will."
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"Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy."
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"Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers."
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"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
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"Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?"
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"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."
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"We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."
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"I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love."
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"To be no part of any body, is to be nothing."
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"Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine."
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"Then love is sin, and let me sinful be."
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"Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste."
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"Pleasure is none, if not diversified."
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"A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat ."
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"I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near."
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"Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant."
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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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"Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were"
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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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"God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God."
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