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we give each other a smile with a future in it

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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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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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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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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