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.
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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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