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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
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
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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
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
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
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
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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 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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Angel God Present Stone Straw
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE

Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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