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“It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.”

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John Henry Patterson was a prominent industrialist. Born on December 13, 1844, and passing away on May 7, 1922, Patterson made significant achievements in the industrial sector, particularly in invention and management. more

“This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.”

Knows Love Doe Said Soul Body Moving Grows Saws Mystery Mixtures

Author:John Donne

“Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!”

Love Should Jesus Strong Christ Love Is Powerful Mets Jesus Christ Instruction Love And Death Love Is Strong

Book:The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

“I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.”

Men Love Hate Enemy Destruction I Hate Vices

Book:The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

“For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.”

Love Art Darkness Absence Dull Emptiness Nothingness Ruined Alchemy Quintessence

Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.”

Love Found Color Clothes Skins Loathe Loveliness

Book:Love Poems

Source: Love Poems

“Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.”

World Love Self Use Shows Lasts Death Dies Thee Sweetest Weariness Jest

Author:John Donne

“I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?”

Love Country Pleasure Wonder Seven Dens Sleepers

Author:John Donne

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