John Donne Quotes, Waiting Quotes, Wish Quotes

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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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.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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

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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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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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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.

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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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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

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Death, thou shalt die.

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