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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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...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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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.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
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Love is a growing, or full constant light And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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