No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
More John Donne Quotes
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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