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Friends are ourselves.

John Donne

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Angel God Present Stone Straw
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
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
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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

Friends are ourselves.

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