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I am a little world made cunningly.

John Donne

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.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNE

Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Beautiful Build Death Love
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
JOHN DONNE

Love Ourselves Run True
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNE

Forever Parents Short Time
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
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
I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNE

Build Myself One Liner World
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
JOHN DONNE

Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich

I am a little world made cunningly.

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