Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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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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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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 much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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No man is an island unto himself.
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