Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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