Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNE