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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

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
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.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
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
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
JOHN DONNE

Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
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
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

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

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