If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
More John Donne Quotes
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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I 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.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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