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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne
Integrity, Sleep, Night
John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

John Donne
Integrity, Angel, Men
John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

John Donne
Honesty, Integrity, Yield

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