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

John Donne

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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
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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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece

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