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As soon as there was two there was pride.

John Donne

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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
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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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner

As soon as there was two there was pride.

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