Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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 two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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