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"Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new."
"I sing the progress of a deathless soul."
"God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw."
"On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo."
"It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing."
"Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols."
"I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good."
"The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life."
"Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness."
"The day breaks not, it is my heart."
"We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant."
"To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts."
"The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms."
"We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up."
"What if this present were the world's last night?"
". . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity."
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."
"Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?"
"To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love."
"Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best."