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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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,…
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to…
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is…
— Richard Sibbes
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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
— John Milton
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
— Samuel Johnson
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Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds…
— John Donne
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Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied…
— Robert Boyle
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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative…
— Anthony Sampson
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