Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. - John Donne

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Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

John Donne

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Body, Fame, Hath, Heaven, Keeps, Soul

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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

Everything, Faith, Friendship, God, Sees

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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