One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNEFriends are ourselves.
More John Donne Quotes
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE