Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNEBatter 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Friends are ourselves.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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