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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
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.
JOHN DONNE

Love Ourselves Run True
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
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.
JOHN DONNE

Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE

Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE

Angel God Present Stone Straw
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE

Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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