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- To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
- And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man…
- Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union…
- By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our…
- Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
- Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
- He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which…
- Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
- Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what…
- Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
- Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is…
- And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this…
- how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though…
- Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till…
- O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God…
- For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty…
- Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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