Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEThere is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island unto himself.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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