What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is … - John Donne

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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

John Donne

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Bed, Marriage, Sight, Tickling, Torment

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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

Advance, Children, Fall, Finde, Honesty, Root

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Diversified, Ifs, Pleasure

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

Eye, Face, Faces, Friendship, Thy

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

Everything, Faith, Friendship, God, Sees

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Indiscreet, Wicked, Worse

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. . . So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

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Hans Arp

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

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At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

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