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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Very Rev. John Donne
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
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