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From Quotes by John Donne
- Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie…
- All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a…
- 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…
- For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,…
- What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation,…
- Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
- From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee…
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth,…
- The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
- Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
- Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
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