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- For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
- Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
- Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a…
- As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
- This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
- 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.…
- I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
- 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…
- I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
- If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
- And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And…
- Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in…
- Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
- All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And…
- Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun…
- 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…
- This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not…
- But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth,…
- And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's…
- All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
- Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
- Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
- Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
- If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps…
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