More from John 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.
John DonneJohn Donne Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
John DonneJohn Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John DonneJohn Donne There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
John DonneJohn Donne I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
John DonneJohn Donne No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John DonneJohn Donne Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John DonneJohn Donne I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
John DonneJohn Donne For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
John DonneJohn Donne Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John DonneJohn Donne All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
John DonneJohn Donne God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
John DonneJohn Donne We give each other a smile with a future in it.
John DonneJohn Donne Death is an ascension to a better library.
John DonneJohn Donne
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Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I love launching products near the holidays because it’s always so hard to figure out what to get special people in your life.
Kim KardashianKim Kardashian There is only one you. Your life is beyond Valuable. Don’t let disappointment and rejection harden your heart. You are wonderful.
Justin BieberJustin Bieber The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
Ayn RandAyn Rand You’re only the love of my life.
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