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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.

John Donne

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!
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Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
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
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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
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
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
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE

Death Delicate Escape Wind

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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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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