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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

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
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
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.
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Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
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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Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner 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
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
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
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich

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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