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In heaven it is always autumn.

John Donne

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
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE

Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature

In heaven it is always autumn.

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