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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne

What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNE

Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
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
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Animal Man Worth Yourself
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
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
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
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.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature

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