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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

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Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

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This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimages last mile; and my race...

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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome ...

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Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste;...

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So all were lost, which in the ship were found, They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

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Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

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Sweare by thy selfe, that at my death thy Sonne Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;...

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When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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A bracelet of bright hair about the bone, Will he not let us alone,...

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Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!

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