Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEPleasure is none, if not diversified.
More John Donne Quotes
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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