I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Friends are ourselves.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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.
JOHN DONNE