How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNETake me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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