As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
More John Donne Quotes
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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