If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
JOHN DONNEAs 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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