Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNESolitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
More John Donne Quotes
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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