And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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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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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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.
JOHN DONNE