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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

John Donne

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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

Better Death Library
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNE

Establishment God Miracle Nature
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
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
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
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE

Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction

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