Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEOnly 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.
JOHN DONNETake me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNEMan is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
JOHN DONNEMore than kisses, letters mingle souls.
JOHN DONNEPoor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNETrue 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.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNEAs soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNELove 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!
JOHN DONNE