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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

John Donne

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
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
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
JOHN DONNE

God Image Myself Soul Visit
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
JOHN DONNE

Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE

Love Season Time
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
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
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
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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