Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNETo be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
More John Donne Quotes
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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