Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEAnd what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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