How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNEPoetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
More John Donne Quotes
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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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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