When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNEBe more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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