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Suffering Quotes
Here blinded with an eye, and thereDeaf with the drumming of an ear; (5-6)
Life, Consciousness, and Existence Quotes
And warms and moves this needless frame,(A fever could but do the same) (15-16)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
O who shall, from this dungeon, raiseA soul enslav'd so many ways? (1-2)
Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
But physic yet could never reachThe maladies thou me dost teach; (31-32)