When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
More John Donne Quotes
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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 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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNE