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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.

John Donne

Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE

Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE

Body One Liner Worth
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

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

Love Myself Oneself Sin
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
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
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
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
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
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
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNE

Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNE

Man Responsibility Work
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves

Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.

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