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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

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

God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE

Eyes Face Myself
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNE

Gift God Happiness Heart Love
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE

Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNE

Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE

Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE

Body One Liner Worth
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE

Greatness Nature Pieces
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNE

Man Responsibility Work
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure

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