If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNETo know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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