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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

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
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE

Art Build Creation Poetry
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
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
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.
JOHN DONNE

Love Ourselves Run True
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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice

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