Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Quote by John Donne

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art...

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

As soon as there was two there was pride

As soon as there was two there was pride

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all...

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all...

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to...

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to...

We asked none leave to love; nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death,...

We asked none leave to love; nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death,...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it...

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a...

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a...

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

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

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say,...

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say,...

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.