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Quote by John Donne
Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. - John Donne

Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. – John Donne

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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. – John Donne

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Age
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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

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Remembrance
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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Prison
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Other Quotes from
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Art

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Art

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. – Martin Luther

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Art

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other peoples weaknesses. – William Hazlitt

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Art

Random Quotes

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Fear

I havent left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking Im incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth. – Josh Radnor

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cool

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. – Mo Rocca

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funny

Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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History