Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
More John Donne Quotes
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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.
JOHN DONNE