Quote #32

Aristotle whilst he labours to refute the Idea's of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum, is a Chimera, and there is no such thing as his Felicity.

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  1. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
  2. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
  3. I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the …
  4. Happy are they that go to bed with grave music.
  5. There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
  6. A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
  7. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition, and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.
  8. That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

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