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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

Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
No man is an island unto himself.
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Himself Island Man
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
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
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man

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