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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

John Donne

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE

Art Build Creation Poetry
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
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.
JOHN DONNE

Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man

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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