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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."
"Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day."
"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."
"Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin."
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing."
"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath."
"I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die."
"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity"
"How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!"
"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."
"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love."
"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."
"Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die."
"Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!"
"Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period."
"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below."
"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."
"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."
"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."