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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.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
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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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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
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There is no health physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.
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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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