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Should the memory of the world but fall asleep, what a fair of mad beasts would the earth be! And surely much the madder for the tongue; since he that forgets himself in his tongue gives another cause to remember him either with neglect or offence. In all that does belong to man, you cannot find a greater wonder. What a treasury of all things in the life of man! What a record, what journal of all!

— Owen Feltham Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.

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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

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Shall I speak truly what I now see below?
The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity,
The shadow of a shadow, a play
And in one word, just Nothing.

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