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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

John Donne

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
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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Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner 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

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