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John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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I shall die reading since my book and a grave are so near.
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My love though silly is more brave.
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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent to a competent I must answer.
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
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ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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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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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
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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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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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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
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