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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.


John Donne

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

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JOHN DONNE No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING Never have I seen a more passionate, grittier team than this one this spring and summer,
BRAD MILLER I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I yet beseech your majesty,--
If for I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose n...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
A...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the...
SANOBER KHAN Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs...
JOHN DONNE O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I c...
EDGAR ALLAN POE If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true; W.B. YEATS I am happy to experience beauty of each season; spring time, summer, autumn and winter.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd in one self place; but where we are is hell,
And wher...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voic...
BIBLE O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
Yet our full-leaved willows are in the f...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT There's something about her.
It's not her smile or grace,
It's not her beauty or race,
J.A. ANUM Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon."

As quoted in ...
SUSAN SARANDON When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie...
MADISON CAWEIN Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberan...
YOKO ONO Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I love the arrival of a new season — each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of ...
GIOVANNA FLETCHER No one can tell me that beauty can't come from something ugly for I have seen a rainbow in a puddle ...
ANDONI GARCIA There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE As to his Wife, John minds St. Paul, He's one/ That hath a Wife, and is as if he'd none.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves An...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and pe...
T.S. ELIOT There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Like delicate lace,
So the threads intertwine,
Oh, gossamer web
Of wond'rous design!<...
BILL WATTERSON Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us lik...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Walk tall as the trees,
live strong as the mountains,
be gentle as the spring winds,
kee...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; pra...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins t...
CASSANDRA CLARE Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own bea...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I sh...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one
who hated what was not virt...
CONFUCIUS From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I...
EDGAR ALLAN POE No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's tr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes ...
JOHN WESLEY The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her arms
I know no chains, nor ...
MICHELINE JEAN LOUIS For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
JOHN DRYDEN No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
JEAN TOOMER There's a limit to the power of a spring, no matter how tightly one winds it.'
'Oh, yes. Yes. A...
TERRY PRATCHETT We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
BIBLE The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual momen...
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint; the sweetest face and the tenderest embr...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Yet should there hover in their restless heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Love.

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of s...
PABLO NERUDA Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes. SREESHA DIVAKARAN Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, b...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR No place of grace for those who avoid the face
No time to rejoice for those who walk among nois...
T.S. ELIOT Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN Just as it is known
That an image of one's face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But doe...
NāGāRJUNA Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."

[Give me the splendid si...
WALT WHITMAN Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the o...
OSAMU DAZAI As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is wh...
BERNHARD SCHLINK There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ...
BIBLE But beauty seen is never lost,
God
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day
ARISTOTLE Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its e...
WILLIAM BLAKE Though the body is its
genesis, a poem is the vision of a process

Out of ceaseles...
FRANK BIDART But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head grown slightly bal...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us aw...
JOHN DONNE The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON In thy face have I seen the eternal.
BARON CHRISTIAN KARL JOSIAS VON BUNSEN The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut.
Nothing," I said. "...
SARAH DESSEN We've known each other for almost half our lives.
I've seen you smiling, confident, blissfully ...
JILL SANTOPOLO If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual momen...
OUIDA As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece, And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell, And twenty more su...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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...
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Fo...
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JOHN DONNE No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

[The...
JOHN DONNE Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
JOHN DONNE Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire, But to supplant, and with gainful intent; God clothed H...
JOHN DONNE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
JOHN DONNE I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost
Who died before the god of Love was born.
JOHN DONNE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where...
JOHN DONNE Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs...
JOHN DONNE This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
Make of so noble individual parts
On...
JOHN DONNE If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years an...
JOHN DONNE Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, JOHN DONNE The Good-Morrow

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? We...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to me...
JOHN DONNE Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
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JOHN DONNE Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each ...
JOHN DONNE A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,
Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
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JOHN DONNE Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
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JOHN DONNE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, ...
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JOHN DONNE This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so t...
JOHN DONNE Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that the...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday...
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JOHN DONNE Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we...
JOHN DONNE All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death
JOHN DONNE This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.
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JOHN DONNE There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whith...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which...
JOHN DONNE No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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JOHN DONNE One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
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JOHN DONNE If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
JOHN DONNE Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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JOHN DONNE Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
JOHN DONNE But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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JOHN DONNE The day breaks not, it is my heart.
JOHN DONNE Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.
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JOHN DONNE Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
JOHN DONNE For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE like gold to airy thinness beat
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JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
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JOHN DONNE Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know fo...
JOHN DONNE When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / A...
JOHN DONNE On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quic...
JOHN DONNE That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
JOHN DONNE She, and comparisons are odious.
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
JOHN DONNE So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which cro...
JOHN DONNE By our first strange and fatal interview.
JOHN DONNE Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none...
JOHN DONNE I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
JOHN DONNE When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
JOHN DONNE ...but come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length JOHN DONNE My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
JOHN DONNE For, thus friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
JOHN DONNE Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...
DR. JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE I have just got a new theory of eternity.
DR. JOHN DONNE If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,...
DR. JOHN DONNE He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it,...
DR. JOHN DONNE We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak...
ELENA DELLE DONNE Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr...
ELENA DELLE DONNE As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c...
ELENA DELLE DONNE It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a...
ELENA DELLE DONNE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER