Adventure Quote by Henry Vaughan

“Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.”

Henry Vaughan

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The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

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“There is in God a deep but dazzling darkness.”

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Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers

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Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

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A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade;…

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I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could…

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

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“ The Dawning Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry, The Bridegroom’s coming! fill the sky; Shall it in the evening…

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Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my…

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For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere

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Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was…

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Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings,…

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