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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.

John Donne

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
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
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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Establishment God Miracle Nature
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
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
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
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

Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.

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