Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
JOHN DONNEGod affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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