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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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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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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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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure Time shall not lose our passages.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
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