Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNEGod employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Friends are ourselves.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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