Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNEKeep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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