How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNEOnly 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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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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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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