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

John Donne

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
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
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
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
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
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
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
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
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
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
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See

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

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