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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

John Donne

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Goal Law Nature
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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God Image Myself Soul Visit
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
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
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Enemy Exception Friendship God Love Man Myself Vice
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
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Myself Observation Sick
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art Hard Love Sick Sweet Treasure
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Better Book Death Language Man Translation
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Confusion Poor Soul
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
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
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.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver

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