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

John Donne

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

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNE

Confusion Poor Soul
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
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE

Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

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

Control Love Oneself Room
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold Man
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNE

Benefit Himself Willing
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
JOHN DONNE

Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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
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
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature

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

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