Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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There 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.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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