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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.

John Donne

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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
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
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
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
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
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

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