I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. - John Donne

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John Donne: "I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming."

John Donne's Quotations

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Asleep	Dead	Death	Declare
Excuse	Exercise	Impotency	Lake
Merely	Might	Mine	Must
Overcome	Seize	Shipwreck	Sullen
Swimming	Take	Weedy	Where

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