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Friends are ourselves.

John Donne

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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
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
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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
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
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry

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