Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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