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

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.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE

Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE

Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
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
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
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.
JOHN DONNE

Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice

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