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

John Donne

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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
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
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
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
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
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
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
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
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Forever Parents Short Time
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
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
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
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

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

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