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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.

John Donne

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
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
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
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
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
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
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat

Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.

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