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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.

John Donne

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
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
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature

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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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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