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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

John Donne

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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
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
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
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
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.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
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
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
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
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.
JOHN DONNE

Love Ourselves Run True
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
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.
JOHN DONNE

Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership

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