Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNELicence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
More John Donne Quotes
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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