How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNELove was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
More John Donne Quotes
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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