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

John Donne

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
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing
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
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE

Love Season Time

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

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