Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
More John Donne Quotes
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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