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

John Donne

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
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE

Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
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
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
JOHN DONNE

Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
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
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

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

Art Compassionate Hold Man
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE

Love Season Time

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

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