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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
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Death, thou shalt die.
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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.
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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
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We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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