Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
More John Donne Quotes
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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