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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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London
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Very Rev. John Donne
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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I shall not live 'till I see God and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
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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.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
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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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Tis true, 'tis day what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure Time shall not lose our passages.
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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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