Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
More John Donne Quotes
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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