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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

John Donne

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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
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
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
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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