Quote by John Donne
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. - John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. – John Donne

Other quotes by John Donne

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne

Category:
Remembrance
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. – John Donne

Category:
Art
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. – John Donne

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God
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. – Charles Lamb

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Beauty

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined. – Robert Musil

Category:
Beauty

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

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Beauty

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Beauty

Random Quotes

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when Im in my fifties and sixties and this isnt what Im going to look like. – Rose Byrne

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Beauty

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Education

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isnt angry enough. – Bede Jarrett

Category:
Anger

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. – Anne Stevenson

Category:
Marriage