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John Donne

"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner." John Donne
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John Donne

"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner." John Donne
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"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys." John Donne
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"Whenever any affliction assails me, I have the keys of my prison in mine own hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgments upon them." John Donne
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"Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name." John Donne
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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." John Donne
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"any mans death diminishes me" John Donne
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"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks." John Donne
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"For as every man is a world in himself, so every man is a church in himself" John Donne
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"For good and evil in our actions meet; wicked is not much worse than indiscreet" John Donne
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"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door." John Donne
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"Be your own palace, or the world is your jail." John Donne
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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." John Donne
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"Ride ten thousand days and nights,Till age snow white hairs on thee." John Donne
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Birth: 1898-11-29 Death: 1963-11-22

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