No man is an island unto himself.
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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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