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

John Donne

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
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
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
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
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See

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

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