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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis…
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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and…
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and…
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth…
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of…
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man…
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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle…
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of…
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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I…
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Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
— William Shakespeare
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
— Hannah More
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Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…
— Thomas Traherne
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On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm.…
— Unknown Author
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half…
— John Dryden
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To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes
— William Shakespeare
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
— George Eliot
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Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
— William Shakespeare
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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,…
— William Shakespeare
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back…
— Dante Alighieri
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Who rides slow, must saddle betimes
— German Proverb
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