Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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