British - Poet | 1572 - March 31, 1631
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne
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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
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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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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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