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.
JOHN DONNEFor God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
More John Donne Quotes
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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