No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
More John Donne Quotes
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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