How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
More John Donne Quotes
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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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.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE