Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNEWho are a little wise the best fools be.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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