Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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