Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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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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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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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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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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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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