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.
JOHN DONNEOur two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
More John Donne Quotes
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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