Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
JOHN DONNEPoetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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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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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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