If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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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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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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