Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNELove 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!
More John Donne Quotes
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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