A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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