If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNEFriends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNEOnly 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.
JOHN DONNEWhen one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNELove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNEO Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNEHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEAll occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNEMore than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEOne short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNE