I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNEOur critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE