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As great a store
Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

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As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

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Wise Nicodemus saw such light
As made him know his God by night.

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

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

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O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowers And shoots of glory, my soul breaks, and buds!

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Affliction is a mother,
Whose painful throes yield many sons,
Each fairer than the other.

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Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

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The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

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Still young and fine! but what is still in view
We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

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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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Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

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Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth,
Man's resurrection, and the future's bud
Shroud in their births.

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

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Prayer is
The world in tune,
A spirit-voice,
And vocal joys,
Whose echo is heaven's bliss.
O let me climb When I lie down!

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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 ache.

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Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

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Most blest believer he!
Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
Thy long expected healing wings could see
When Thou didst rise!

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Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move,
And when this dust falls to the urn,
In that state I came, return.

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They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.

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Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!
Shining nowhere but in the dark;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,
Could man outlook that mark!

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I see them walking in an air of glory
Whose light doth trample on my days,
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.

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And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch
Till the white-wing'd reapers come!

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If a star were confined into a tomb
Her captive flames must needs burn there;
But when the hand that locked her up gives room,
She'll shine through all the sphere.

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