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John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Tis true, 'tis day what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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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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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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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither but an obscenity.
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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
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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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I shall die reading since my book and a grave are so near.
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