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In heaven it is always autumn.

John Donne

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
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
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
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver

In heaven it is always autumn.

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