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 DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNE