Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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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.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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