Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
More John Donne Quotes
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE