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.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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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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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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