I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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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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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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