No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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