Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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