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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

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.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Body One Liner Worth
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE

Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
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.
JOHN DONNE

Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
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
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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