Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNEGod employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
More John Donne Quotes
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Friends are ourselves.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNE