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Beauty Quote by John Donne

“That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.” quote by John Donne — Download Open image

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

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls…

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all…

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my…

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Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart?

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“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp'd town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy…

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull…

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and…

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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 year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never…

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

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