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.
JOHN DONNEAs God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
More John Donne Quotes
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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