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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

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
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
JOHN DONNE

Afraid Animal Fear Man
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE

Art Build Creation Poetry
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE

Angel God Present Stone Straw
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE

God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

Better Death Library
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNE

Control Love Oneself Room
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
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.
JOHN DONNE

Heaven Joy Place Safety True World

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