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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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That thou remember them, some claim as debt I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
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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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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
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ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
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