No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEOur two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
More John Donne Quotes
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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