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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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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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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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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.
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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
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Great sorrows cannot speak.
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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure Time shall not lose our passages.
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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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