Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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