Maxioms by Dr. John Donne
 My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my 
provisions are not cut off, I read more 
 My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my 
provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; 
my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false 
apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see 
that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails. 
 He was the word that spake it,
 He took the bread and brake it;
  And what that read more 
 He was the word that spake it,
 He took the bread and brake it;
  And what that word did make it,
   I do believe and take it. 
 If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity 
is not an everlasting flux of time, but time read more 
 If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity 
is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short 
parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as 
it is, though time had never been. 
 No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
 As I have seen in one autumnal face;
  Young read more 
 No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
 As I have seen in one autumnal face;
  Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape;
   This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape. 
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.