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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

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
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
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
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
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
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
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
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.
JOHN DONNE

Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time

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