Quote by John Donne
Be thine own palace, or the worlds thy jail. - John Donne

Be thine own palace, or the worlds thy jail. – John Donne

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. – John Donne

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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

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Art
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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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If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. – Roberto Clemente

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You never know what motivates you. – Cicely Tyson

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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts mans moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. – Orison Swett Marden

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