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In heaven it is always autumn.

John Donne

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
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.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
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
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul

In heaven it is always autumn.

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