Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNENature hath no goal though she hath law.
More John Donne Quotes
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Friends are ourselves.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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