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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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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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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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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
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