No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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