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

John Donne

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNE

Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
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
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE

Death Delicate Escape Wind
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE

Himself Island Man
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
JOHN DONNE

Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNE

Life Love Myself Wonder
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride

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