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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
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