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"Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity."
"But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes."
"Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine."
"Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more."
"All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay."
"When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust."
"He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book."
"Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown."
"Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow."
"Kind pity chokes my spleen."
"The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say."
"Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick."
"Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment."
"My love though silly is more brave."
"Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you."
"Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none."
"To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer."
"How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company."
"Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee."
"Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper."