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.
JOHN DONNECome 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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