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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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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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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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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent to a competent I must answer.
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
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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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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
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