"Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night."
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"When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity."
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"All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons."
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"This only is charity, to do all, all that we can."
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"Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
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"All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day."
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"And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair."
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"True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign."
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"I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born."
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"From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery."
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"In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man."
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"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God."
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"At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole."
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"O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!"
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"Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill."
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"I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind."
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"All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."
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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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"I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door."
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"If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?"
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