For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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