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Death is an ascension to a better library.

John Donne

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love Season Time
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

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