If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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