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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

John Donne

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNE

Gift God Happiness Heart Love
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
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
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
JOHN DONNE

God Image Myself Soul Visit
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
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
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
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.
JOHN DONNE

Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride

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