Quote #69

Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.

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  1. What if this present were the world's last night?
  2. Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
  3. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
  4. I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.
  5. Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sle…
  6. A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat.
  7. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthro…
  8. Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.

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