John Donne Quotes
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Hee drinkes misery, and he tastes happinesse; he mowes misery, and he gleanes happinesse; he journeys in misery, he does but walke in happinesse.
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Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread Our eyes, upon one double string; So to entergraft our hands, as yet Was all the means to make us one, And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation.
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreth of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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She, and comparisons are odious.
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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.