There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
JOHN DONNE






