Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEPoetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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