When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
More John Donne Quotes
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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