I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNEHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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