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Newton, Isaac. "Rules for Methodising/Construing the Apocalyps." Untitled Treatise on Revelation, c. 1680, rule 9.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

On Architecture

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Wren, Christopher. "On Architecture." Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens. London: Thomas Osborn, 1750, appendix, tract 1.

Thunder is the voice of God, and, therefore, to be dreaded.

Increase Mather

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Mather, Increase. An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences. Boston: Joseph Browning, 1684, ch. 4.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyere

The Characters

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Bruyère, Jean de La. Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle [The Characters or Manners of this Century]. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1688, ch. 4, no. 4.

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Bruyère, Jean de La. The Characters of Jean de la Bruyère, translated by Henri van Laun. Routledge, 1929, ch. 4, no. 4.

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Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. London: Thomas Northcott, 1693, pt. 1, no. 142.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Christian Morals. Cambridge: University Press, 1716, pt. 1, sect. 34.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Christian Morals (1716)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 34.

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De La Bruyere, Jean. "Des jugements [Of Judgement]." Les Caracteres ou Les Moeurs de Ce Siecle [The Characters or The Manners of the Age]. Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet, 1688.

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Flatman, Thomas. "The Defiance." Poems and Songs. London: Benjamin Tooke, 1674.

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Waller, Edmund. "On the Foregoing Divine Poems." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Aphra Behn

The Emperor of the Moon

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Behn, Aphra. The Emperor of the Moon. Performed by Cave Underhill, Anthony Leigh, Thomas Jevon, Sarah Cooke, and Katherine Corey. 1687, Dorset Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Behn, Aphra. "The Emperor of the Moon." The Rover and Other Plays, edited by Jane Spencer. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Behn, Aphra. La Montre, or The Lover's Watch. London: W. Canning, 1686.

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Behn, Aphra. "La Montre, or The Lover's Watch." The Works of Aphra Behn: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2018.

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Dryden, John. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts. London: Jacob Tonson, 1687, pt. 3, I. 388.

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Dryden, John. "The Hind and the Panther." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 3, I. 388.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Richard Milward

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Selden, John. Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq. London: Alex Murray and Sons, 1689.