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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

John Donne

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
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
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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Forever Parents Short Time
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
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
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
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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