- Diminishes
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- Every Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
- Canst
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
- Curtains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
- None
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
- Dies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
- Nov 07, 2020
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
- Employs
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- Nov 07, 2020
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
- Humiliation
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- Nov 07, 2020