To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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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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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE