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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNE

Count God Goodness Life Myself
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
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
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.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE

Death Delicate Escape Wind
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
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship One Liner Ourselves
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE

Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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