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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

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul

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