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Doth Quotes by John Donne
- Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
- I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
- Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
- This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not…
- Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
- 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 not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
- Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
- To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
- 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.…
- Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their…
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