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John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
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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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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.
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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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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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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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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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Death, thou shalt die.
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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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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
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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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