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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more Death, thou shalt die.
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
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It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
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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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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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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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