Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNEAs he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
More John Donne Quotes
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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