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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

John Donne

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.
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Forever Parents Short Time
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
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 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
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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
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.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

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