Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
More John Donne Quotes
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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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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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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