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.
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
More John Donne Quotes
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE






