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In heaven it is always autumn.
John DonneJohn Donne One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
John DonneJohn Donne Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John DonneJohn Donne More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
John DonneJohn Donne Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John DonneJohn Donne Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John DonneJohn Donne 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!
John DonneJohn Donne When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John DonneJohn Donne No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John DonneJohn Donne Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
John DonneJohn Donne Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
John DonneJohn Donne 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 DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
John DonneJohn Donne
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
AristotleAristotle Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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