For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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