John Donne Quotes, Decay Quotes, Our Love Quotes

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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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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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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I am a little world made cunningly.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

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