I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
More John Donne Quotes
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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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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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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