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Friends are ourselves.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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we give each other a smile with a future in it
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of 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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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