No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
More John Donne Quotes
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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As 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.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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