Quote #9

Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust My God shall raise me up, I trust!

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  2. Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
  3. Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
  4. Cowards fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
  5. [History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
  6. Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
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  8. Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

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