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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

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
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
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
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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