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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
John DonneJohn Donne How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
John DonneJohn Donne Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
John DonneJohn Donne Who are a little wise the best fools be.
John DonneJohn Donne Friends are ourselves.
John DonneJohn Donne A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
John DonneJohn Donne Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
John DonneJohn Donne If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
John DonneJohn Donne 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?
John DonneJohn Donne For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
John DonneJohn Donne As soon as there was two there was pride.
John DonneJohn Donne Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John DonneJohn Donne What if this present were the world’s last night?
John DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
John DonneJohn Donne I am a little world made cunningly.
John DonneJohn Donne
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
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David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.
Anne FrankAnne Frank We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.
ConfuciusConfucius Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinAnais Nin I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf So, have a little fun. Soon enough you’ll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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