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

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.
JOHN DONNE

Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Continent Man Piece
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNE

Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Body Book Grow Love Mystery Soul
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
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNE

Life Love Myself Wonder
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.
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Forever Parents Short Time
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Expression Feeling Grave Human Thinking Word
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
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
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Beginning Humility One Liner Satisfaction
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
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up

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