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«One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: eternally, short sleep, wake
«Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: mysteries
«Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory»
Author: John Donne | About: God | Keywords: duties, Duties of, sleep in
«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
«Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail»
Author: John Donne | Keywords: jail, jailed, palace, Thine
«Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.»
Author: John Donne | About: Beauty, Love
«Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.»
Author: John Donne | About: Reason | Keywords: left hand, left handed
«Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
«Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were»
Author: John Donne | About: Creativity, Poetry | Keywords: counterfeit, counterfeiting
«No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.»
Author: John Donne | About: Beauty, Grace | Keywords: autumnal, spring beauty

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