I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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.
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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