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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

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
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
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
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
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
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder

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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