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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNE

Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE

Love Season Time
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
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
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE

Declaration Love
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
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
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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
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.
JOHN DONNE

Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNE

Death God Instruction Love Powerful Strong Yourself
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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