Sweetest Love Quotes by John Donne

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John Donne has 231 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
• If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,…
• That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
• Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
• As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
• How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to…
• Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
• Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

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