Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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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 he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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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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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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