Only 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 DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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