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

John Donne

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?
JOHN DONNE

Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE

Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNE

Control Love Oneself Room
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold Man
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE

Better Book Death Language Man Translation
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNE

Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
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
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God

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