Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNESolitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
More John Donne Quotes
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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