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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNE

Man Responsibility Work
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
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
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
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.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
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
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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

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