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?
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
More John Donne Quotes
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE