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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

John Donne

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Life Love Myself Wonder
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
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE

Better Book Death Language Man Translation
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
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love Myself Oneself Sin
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
JOHN DONNE

Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual

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