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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.

John Donne

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Gift God Happiness Heart Love
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
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 observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word

Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.

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