Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
More John Donne Quotes
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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