No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
More John Donne Quotes
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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I 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.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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