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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
John Donne
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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Kind pity chokes my spleen.
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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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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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
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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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Death, thou shalt die.
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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
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