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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

John Donne

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep 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.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
JOHN DONNE

Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE

Greatness Nature Pieces
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE

Himself Island Man
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.
JOHN DONNE

Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE

Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret

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