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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

John Donne

Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

Better Death Library
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE

Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
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
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE

Affect Angel Flame Voice
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE

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

Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE

Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNE

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

Continent Man Piece
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNE

Absence Greatness Love Presence
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
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
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE

Body One Liner Worth

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