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Some unknown joys there be
Laid up in store for me.

— Thomas Traherne

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Order the beauty even of beauty is,
It is the rule of bliss,
The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

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