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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

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
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
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
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
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE

Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste

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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