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Friends are ourselves.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure Time shall not lose our passages.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
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