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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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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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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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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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.
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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
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I shall die reading since my book and a grave are so near.
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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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