Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
More John Donne Quotes
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for 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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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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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Friends are ourselves.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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.
JOHN DONNE






