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 DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
More John Donne Quotes
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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