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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

John Donne

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNE

God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE

Affect Angel Flame Voice
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
JOHN DONNE

Love Ourselves Run True
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE

Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNE

Confusion Poor Soul
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE

Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
JOHN DONNE

Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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