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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

John Donne

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 sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE

Art Build Creation Poetry
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE

Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
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.
JOHN DONNE

God Image Myself Soul Visit
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Angel God Present Stone Straw
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man

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