Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNEAnd what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
More John Donne Quotes
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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