Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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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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