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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

John Donne

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
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
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
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
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
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
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
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
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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
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
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison 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 am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul

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