Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
More John Donne Quotes
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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 ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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