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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

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
In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNE

Autumn Heaven Season
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
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE

Kiss Letter Soul
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNE

Endurance Expansion Gold Myself Soul
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Dreams Fantasy God Joy Myself Relationship
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
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
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE

Change Deep Myself
I am a little world made cunningly.
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Build Myself One Liner World
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

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