John Donne Quotes, Love Quotes, Peace Quotes

We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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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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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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No man is an island unto himself.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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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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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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