Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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