And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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 throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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