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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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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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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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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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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

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