What if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
More John Donne Quotes
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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