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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.

John Donne

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
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
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
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
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
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
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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

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