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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

John Donne

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
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE

Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNE

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

Absence Greatness Love Presence
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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