Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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