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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.
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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!
John Donne
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
John Donne
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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.
John Donne
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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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
John Donne
I shall die reading since my book and a grave are so near.
John Donne
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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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
John Donne
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
John Donne
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Friends are ourselves.
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