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

John Donne

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE

Affect Angel Flame Voice
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
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
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNE

Count God Goodness Life Myself
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNE

God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE

Body One Liner Worth
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
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
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
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship One Liner Ourselves
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat

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