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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

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
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
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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

Love Ourselves Run True
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership

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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