When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNELove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
More John Donne Quotes
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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