When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will 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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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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