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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

John Donne

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
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
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
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
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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

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