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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

John Donne

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
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
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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

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