Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE
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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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