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I shall not live 'till I see God and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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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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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned alas why should I be?
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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