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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNE

Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNE

Establishment God Miracle Nature
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

Better Death Library
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE

Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold Man

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