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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE

Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE

Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul

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