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The Temple (1633)
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I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
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Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
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Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.
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If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.
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Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.
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The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
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A verse may finde him, who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice
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Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.
Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,
Cannot on forty.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.
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Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.
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Most things move th' under-jaw, the crocodile not. Most things sleep lying, th' elephant leans or stands.
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Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
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Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.
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Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee..
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My body is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath private smity, And both with moon and tides.
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Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!
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For thirty pence he did my death devise,
Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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Born:
April 3, 1593
Died:
March 1, 1633
(aged 39)
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