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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

John Donne

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
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
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
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
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
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
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
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
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
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

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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