If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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 am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
JOHN DONNE