We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEAs 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Friends are ourselves.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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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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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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