You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

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This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

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