Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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