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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.

John Donne

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
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
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
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.

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