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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

John Donne

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
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNE

Man Responsibility Work
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE

Art Compassionate Hold Man
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
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
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE

Affect Angel Flame Voice
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE

Art Build Creation Poetry
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE

Love Season Time
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
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE

Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE

Palace Prison World
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNE

Benefit Himself Willing
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE

End Night Present World
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

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