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Friends are ourselves.

John Donne

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
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
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
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
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
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
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
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

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