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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

John Donne

How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Gift God Happiness Heart Love
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.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
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
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
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
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
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership

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