How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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No man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNE