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

John Donne

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
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
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
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE

God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

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

Continent Man Piece
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

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

Control Love Oneself Room
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNE

Gift God Happiness Heart Love
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNE

Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNE

Establishment God Miracle Nature
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season

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

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