A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
JOHN DONNEGod employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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