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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

John Donne

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

Palace Prison World
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
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE

God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
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
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE

Angel God Present Stone Straw
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
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
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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

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

Death Delicate Escape Wind

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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