Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
More John Donne Quotes
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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