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"Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth."
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. vi.
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"Rich with the spoils of Nature."
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xiii.
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"Nature is the art of God."
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xvi.
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"The thousand doors that lead to death."
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xliv.
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"The heart of man is the place the Devil 's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself."
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. li.
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"There is no road or ready way to virtue."
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. lv.
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"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike."
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. ii.
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"There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres."
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. ix.
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"Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!"
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.
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"Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua."
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.
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"Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,--when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number."
Dedication to Urn-Burial.
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"I look upon you as gem of the old rock."
Dedication to Urn-Burial.
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave."
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
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"Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests."
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
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"Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it."
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
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"What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women."
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
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"When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose."
Vulgar Errors.
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