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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

John Donne

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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
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
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
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
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
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
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
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

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