Quote #25

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

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  4. For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
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  7. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
  8. There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

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