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Natures great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thi

Natures great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing. – John Donne

Other quotes by John Donne

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

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Poetry
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Adams

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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. – Julius Caesar

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Nature

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen

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A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! – Dave Beard

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. – William Blake

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As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved. – Lester B. Pearson

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