Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
More John Donne Quotes
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Friends are ourselves.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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