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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNE

Death God Live Myself See
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE

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

Absence Greatness Love Presence
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold 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
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNE

Gift God Happiness Heart Love
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE

Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

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