I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEI throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
More John Donne Quotes
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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