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• As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

  John Donne

  Heart, Cheerful, God Love

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• Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

  John Donne

  Friendship, Eye, Faces

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• The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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  Heart, My Heart, Break

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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  Exercise, Miracle, Done

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) Easter Day, 25 March 1627

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• Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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  Children, Honesty, Fall

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• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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  Pleasure, Ifs

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

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  Heart, Blow, Shining

  Holy Sonnets no. 10 (published 1633)

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• 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.

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  Love, Running, Yesterday

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Anniversary'

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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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  Heaven, Kingdoms, Rich

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford”, p.196

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• Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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  Nature, Law, Goal

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• God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

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  God, Autumn, Maturity

  John Donne (1963). “John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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  Wise, Intellectual, Intelligence

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• Friends are ourselves.

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  Friends

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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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  Waiting, Wish, Genius

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• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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  Love, Beauty, Sarcastic

  'Elegies' 'The Anagram' (1593-6)

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• I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

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  Love, Hate, Men

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.242

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• Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

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  Waste, Goodness, Greediness

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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  Book, Desire, Should

  John Donne “The Sermons of John Donne”, Univ of California Press

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

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  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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  Men, Disability, Old Man

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.28

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• I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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  Book, Reading, Lovers

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.169, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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  Love, Jesus, Strong

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.18

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• What if this present were the world's last night?

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  Night, History, What If

  Holy Sonnets no. 9 (published 1633)

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• There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

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  Sticks, Hook, Benefits

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.481

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• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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