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John Donne Quotes: O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
         

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!


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No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.



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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.



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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.



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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.



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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.



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, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

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, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?



Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.



More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.



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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.





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