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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

John Donne

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

Continent Man Piece
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE

Eyes Face Myself
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE

Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNE

Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
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 throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNE

Death God Kill Myself Poor Proud Thinking
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
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

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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