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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

John Donne

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
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
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison 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
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
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

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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