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

John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
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.
JOHN DONNE

Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
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
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNE

Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE

Angel God Present Stone Straw
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Friends are ourselves.
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Friendship One Liner Ourselves
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride

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

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