And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
More John Donne Quotes
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE