Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE