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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

John Donne
Life, Change, Joy
John Donne (2012). “John Donne”, p.39, Faber & Faber

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

John Donne
Life, War, Book
John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.574

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

John Donne
Life, Critical, Courses
John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.291

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

John Donne
Life, Women, Swear
John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne
Life, Sleep, Men

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

John Donne
Life, Tolls, Bells

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