There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
More John Donne Quotes
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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