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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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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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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
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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 poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned alas why should I be?
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?
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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.
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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.
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