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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

John Donne

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNE

Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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