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.
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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