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.
JOHN DONNETo be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
More John Donne Quotes
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for 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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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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