No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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