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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

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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
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
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
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
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
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.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind 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
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul

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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