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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

John Donne

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
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
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
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
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
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
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself

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