Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEOur two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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