For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEFor God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNEGod employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNENothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNEBe more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEIf 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.
JOHN DONNETo know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEWhen one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNELove 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!
JOHN DONNE