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there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

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Henry Vaughan

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

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Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

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