More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNEAs he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
More John Donne Quotes
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Friends are ourselves.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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