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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

John Donne

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

Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNE

Friendship One Liner Ourselves
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE

Death Deep Equality Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNE

Goal Law Nature
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE

Beautiful Build Death Love
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE

Death Delicate Escape Wind
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
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE

Greatness Nature Pieces
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE

Love Season Time
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNE

Cleaning Hands Integrity Night Regret
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE

Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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