Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEAll occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
More John Donne Quotes
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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 DONNE