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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

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
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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face 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
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
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
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
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
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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