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

John Donne

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
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
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 built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNE

Death God Live Myself See
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE

Angel God Present Stone Straw
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.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time

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