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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither but an obscenity.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
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That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
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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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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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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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