Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEPoor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
More John Donne Quotes
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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True 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.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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