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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNE

Control Love Oneself Room
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNE

Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNE

Count God Goodness Life Myself
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
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.
JOHN DONNE

Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
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
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
JOHN DONNE

God Image Myself Soul Visit
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNE

Confusion Poor Soul
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
JOHN DONNE

Heaven Joy Place Safety True World

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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