Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
More John Donne Quotes
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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