For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
More John Donne Quotes
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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If 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.
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