Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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