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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Very Rev. John Donne
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I shall die reading since my book and a grave are so near.
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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
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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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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
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When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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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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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
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We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne