No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNEHow much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
More John Donne Quotes
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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