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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

John Donne

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE

Better Book Death Language Man Translation
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE

Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold Man
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself

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