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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest—for ’tis thine own,— And tumble up and down what thou findest there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows finde, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his minde.
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest—for ’tis thine own,— And tumble up and down what thou findest there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows finde, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his minde.
Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- George Herbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 257; printed byline: George Herbert; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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