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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

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
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
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
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
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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
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
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
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

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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