There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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