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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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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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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.
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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 wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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