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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

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
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
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
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
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
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

Gift God Happiness Heart Love
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
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
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
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
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer

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