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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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The day breaks not, it is my heart.
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
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