Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNETrue 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.
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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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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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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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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