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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.
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we give each other a smile with a future in it
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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.
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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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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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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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