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.
JOHN DONNELove 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE






