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Letter "J" » John Donne Quotes
«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 by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.»
Author: John Donne
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bookish, contemplative, contend, controversies, Judges, of necessity, quarrelsome, witnesses
«Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines and silver hooks»
Author: John Donne
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Brooks, crystal, crystals, hooks, lines, new line, sands, silken, silver, silver lining, the Crystal
«And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee»
«Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?»
«Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes»
Author: John Donne
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equally
«But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere.»
«But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.»
Author: John Donne
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mourn
«Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.»
«Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time»
«Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven»
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