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In heaven it is always autumn.

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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
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
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
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.
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Love Ourselves Run True
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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

In heaven it is always autumn.

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