Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNETake me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
More John Donne Quotes
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE