Friends are ourselves.
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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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