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

John Donne

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
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
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
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
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
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
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
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
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
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich

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