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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

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE

Eyes Face Myself
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE

Body One Liner Worth
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
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

Better Death Library
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE

Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
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
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
JOHN DONNE

God Image Myself Soul Visit
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNE

Control Love Oneself Room
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE

Death Delicate Escape Wind

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

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