Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEPoetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
More John Donne Quotes
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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 observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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