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

John Donne

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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
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
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Gift God Happiness Heart Love
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
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’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
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
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul

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

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