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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

John Donne

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Forever Parents Short Time
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
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
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
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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
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 is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
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.
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Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
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
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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