Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
More John Donne Quotes
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Love 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.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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