So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNETrue 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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