Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE