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?
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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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 ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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