Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNELove is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
More John Donne Quotes
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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No man is an island unto himself.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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