I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNENature hath no goal though she hath law.
More John Donne Quotes
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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