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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

John Donne

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.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
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
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
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.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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