Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
More John Donne Quotes
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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