John Donne Quotes, Death Quotes, Art Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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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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Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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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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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

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Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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