Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNESolitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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