Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
More John Donne Quotes
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Friends are ourselves.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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