Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNEOne short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
More John Donne Quotes
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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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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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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 am a little world made cunningly.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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