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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

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE

Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
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
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE

Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE

Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNE

Each Other Future One Liner
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
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick

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