I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEOnly 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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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 is an ascension to a better library.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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