Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEDeath 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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