Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEThe rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
More John Donne Quotes
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNE