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I am a little world made cunningly.

John Donne

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
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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Angel God Present Stone Straw
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
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’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 nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature
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
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God

I am a little world made cunningly.

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