For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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