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

John Donne

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE

Hands Let Go
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNE

Man Responsibility Work
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
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
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

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

Continent Man Piece
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
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 more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
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
No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE

Himself Island Man
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
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
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
JOHN DONNE

Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
JOHN DONNE

Love Ourselves Run True
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See

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

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