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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.
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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Great sorrows cannot speak.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
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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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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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we give each other a smile with a future in it
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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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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
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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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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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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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