Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEWho are a little wise the best fools be.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE