We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
More John Donne Quotes
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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