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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold Man
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE

Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
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
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
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNE

Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNE

Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
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
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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