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

John Donne

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
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner 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
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
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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
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!
JOHN DONNE

Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
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
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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.
JOHN DONNE

Determination Difference Quiet Weakness

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

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