John Donne Quotes, Writing Quotes, Lust Quotes

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

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Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

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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 he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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No man is an island unto himself.

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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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