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

John Donne

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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
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
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
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Angel God Present Stone Straw
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
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
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
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure

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

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