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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

John Donne

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNE

Benefit Himself Willing
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
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 he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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

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