Date: 1600
"Grant him there; there seen, / Heave him away upon your wingèd thoughts / Athwart the sea."
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Date: 1600
"For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, / As dogs upon their masters, worrying you."
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Date: 1600
"Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith / To hold opinion with Pythagoras / That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men."
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Date: 1603
"There's something in his soul / O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose / Will be some danger."
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Date: 1603
"O wretched state, O bosom black as death, / O limèd soul that, struggling to be free, / Art more engaged!"
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Date: 1603
"Haste, haste me to know it, that with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love / May sweep to my revenge."
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Date: 1603
"Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your / dull ass will not mend his pace with beating."
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Date: c. 1603
"The fact is, my son, that the human mind in studying nature becomes big under the impact of things and brings forth a teeming brood of errors."
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Date: 1604
"For, as the Ratte running behinde a paynted cloth, betrayeth her selfe; even so, a Passion lurking in the heart, by thoughts and speech discovereth it selfe, according to the common Proverbe, ex abundantia cordis os loquitur, from the aboundance of heart, the tongue speaketh: for as a Riv...
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Date: 1605
"For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable fo...
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