Or do they reach his judging mind, that he
Should now love less what he did love to see?
(Elegy V: His Picture)
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
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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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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
John Donne
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