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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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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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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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