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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

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
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE

Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE

Fools Love Myself Talk
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNE

Hell Solitude Threat
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE

Animal Man Worth Yourself
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
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
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE

Better Death Library
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
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE

Body Clothes Joy Naked Soul Taste
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE

God Hold Kiss Love Myself Romance Sex Tongue Yourself
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNE

Each Other Future One Liner
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE

Knowledge Ourselves Perfection
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE

Myself Observation Sick
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE

Bell God
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNE

Fear God Himself See

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

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