Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
More John Donne Quotes
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Only 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.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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