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ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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London
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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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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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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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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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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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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
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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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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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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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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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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent to a competent I must answer.
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