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My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger
In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger;
Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears;
Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

— Francis Quarles

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The next way home's the farthest way about.

Emblems (1635)

Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

Enchiridion (1640)

Even such is man, whose glory lends
His life a blaze or two, and ends.

Hos ego versiculos (1629)

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Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

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Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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