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Friends are ourselves.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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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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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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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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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
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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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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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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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