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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
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
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
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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Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
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
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
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder

Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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