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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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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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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock breathe, shine, and seek to mend That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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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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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
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The day breaks not, it is my heart.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
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