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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

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
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
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
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
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
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
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
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
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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