Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEAny 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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