No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE