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...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; t...

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O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous mo...

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...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,Living so little while we are alive;In eating, drin...

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Anne BradstreetAnthology of American Literature

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

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He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the...

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

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God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the o...

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