More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNE
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?
More John Donne Quotes
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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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.
JOHN DONNE