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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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We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
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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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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
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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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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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That thou remember them, some claim as debt I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
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