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.
JOHN DONNENo spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
More John Donne Quotes
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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