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.
JOHN DONNEI 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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