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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
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
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNE

Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNE

Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE

Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
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
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
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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