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.
JOHN DONNEI 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.
JOHN DONNEAs he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNELove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
JOHN DONNELove 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!
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEAll occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNEReason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEFriends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNE