Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNENo spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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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.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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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.
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