Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
More John Donne Quotes
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE