John Donne on dreams
John Donne86 quotes“If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.”
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
John DonneJohn Donne There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
John DonneJohn Donne I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
John DonneJohn Donne Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
John DonneJohn Donne Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
John DonneJohn Donne Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
John DonneJohn Donne If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
John DonneJohn Donne In heaven it is always autumn.
John DonneJohn Donne One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
John DonneJohn Donne Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John DonneJohn Donne More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John DonneJohn Donne How imperfect is all our knowledge!
John DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
John DonneJohn Donne Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John DonneJohn Donne Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John DonneJohn Donne
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