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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.
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Great sorrows cannot speak.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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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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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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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.
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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!
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Love is a growing, or full constant light And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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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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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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That thou remember them, some claim as debt I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
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