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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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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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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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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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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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