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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

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
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.
JOHN DONNE

Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE

Better Book Death Language Man Translation
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul

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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