Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE