Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
More John Donne Quotes
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never 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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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