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 DONNEPleasure is none, if not diversified.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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