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- 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.…
- Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,…
- Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our…
- Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,…
- The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
- Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie…
- For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,…
- Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that…
- Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
- In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf,…
- Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
- Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
- I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but…
- 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…
- Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for…
- Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
- For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow.…
- No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be…
- Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
- Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.…
- 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,…
- All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated…
- Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale