I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNETo be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE