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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

John Donne

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
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
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
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
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
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
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
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

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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