What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Friends are ourselves.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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