There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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.
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