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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

John Donne

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Gift God Happiness Heart Love
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.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
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.
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Forever Parents Short Time
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure

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