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.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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