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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

John Donne

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
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
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE

Death Delicate Escape Wind
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE

Despair Heaven Hell Joy
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNE

God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNE

Best Fools One Liner Wisdom
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNE

Love Myself Oneself Sin
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNE

Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
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
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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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