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In heaven it is always autumn.

John Donne

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
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
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
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
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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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!
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Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself

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