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John Donne (pronounced "Dun"; 1572 March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, and sermons. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."

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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

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"Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet."

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"As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else."

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"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity."

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"When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity."

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"At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole."

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"Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world."

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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

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