Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEHow much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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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.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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