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From this I testify her holy cheerfulness, and religious alacrity, (one of the best evidences of a good conscience), that as she came to this place, God’s house of Prayer...she ever hastened her family, and her company hither, with that cheerful provocation, For God’s sake let’s go, For God’s sake let’s be there at the Confession.

— John Donne A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers (1627)

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Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend,
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