The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by … - John Donne

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From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

John Donne

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

Alms, Heaven, Kingdoms, Poor, Rich

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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.

Advance, Children, Fall, Finde, Honesty, Root

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Diversified, Ifs, Pleasure

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

Eye, Face, Faces, Friendship, Thy

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.

Indiscreet, Wicked, Worse

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What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

Drawing, Fifteen, Good, Moving, Urged

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

Grace, Lifted, Long, Rivers, Running, Stars

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By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

1948, Astonishing, Disaster, Inability, Pull, Together

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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Dream, Earth, Example, Heart, Starry, Stars