Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
More John Donne Quotes
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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