No man is an island unto himself.
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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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