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

John Donne

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

Palace Prison World
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
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.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
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
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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
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 soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love

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

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