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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

John Donne

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
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
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
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
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
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

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