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John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
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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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Love is a growing, or full constant light And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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I shall die reading since my book and a grave are so near.
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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
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Death, thou shalt die.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Great sorrows cannot speak.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.
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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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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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