How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNEAny 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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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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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