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No man is an island unto himself.

John Donne

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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
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
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
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.
JOHN DONNE

God Image Myself Soul Visit
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

No man is an island unto himself.

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