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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

John Donne

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNE

Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE

Greatness Nature Pieces
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
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
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE

Exception Freedom Prison Yourself
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNE

Life Love Myself Wonder
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE

Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE

Ego Number Pride
No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE

Himself Island Man
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

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