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No man is an island unto himself.

John Donne

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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
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
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
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
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder

No man is an island unto himself.

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