I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
As soon as there was two there was pride.
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
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 thee.
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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