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 DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
More John Donne Quotes
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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