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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?
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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither but an obscenity.
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Kind pity chokes my spleen.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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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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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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