Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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.
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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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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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