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Nor Quotes by John Donne
- Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies…
- O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
- 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…
- Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that…
- 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…
- Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
- Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?
- 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,…
- No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
- 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.…
- Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
- Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be…
- Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and…
- Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic…
- We asked none leave to love; nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go.
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- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
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