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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

John Donne

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
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
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
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
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
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
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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.
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Forever Parents Short Time
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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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