Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNELove 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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 count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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