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Death is an ascension to a better library.

John Donne

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
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
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
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
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
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
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
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
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See

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