Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
More John Donne Quotes
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Friends are ourselves.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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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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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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