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John Donne

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
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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!
JOHN DONNE

Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
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
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World

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