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I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease... my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.

— John Donne Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

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Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.

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Fill'd with her love, may I be rather grown
Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend,
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant,
The only harmless great thing.

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Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is;
All the air is thy diocese.

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