"Our two souls therefore which are one, Though……" — John Donne
"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."
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John Donne
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223 Quotes by John Donne
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals…
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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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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church…
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I…
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like…
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or…
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— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain…
— Paul Cezanne
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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— Eric Alterman
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
— Tori Amos
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— Edmond Halley
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
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