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Eternity Quote by John Donne

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“Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.”

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart?

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“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,…

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull…

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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…

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All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by…

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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

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You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

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You may have some friends that come and go, but having a friend like God will last forever.

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