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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

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE

Eyes Face Myself
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
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
JOHN DONNE

Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
JOHN DONNE

Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE

Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNE

Gift God Happiness Heart Love
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE

Greatness Nature Pieces
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE

Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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