Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me 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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