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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

John Donne

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
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
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

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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