Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE
JOHN DONNE
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
John DonneJohn Donne Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
John DonneJohn Donne If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
John DonneJohn Donne In heaven it is always autumn.
John DonneJohn Donne One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
John DonneJohn Donne Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John DonneJohn Donne More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John DonneJohn Donne How imperfect is all our knowledge!
John DonneJohn Donne As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John DonneJohn Donne Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
John DonneJohn Donne Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John DonneJohn Donne Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John DonneJohn 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!
John DonneJohn Donne When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John DonneJohn Donne No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John DonneJohn Donne Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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