Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
More John Donne Quotes
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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