"Take me to you, imprison me, for I,……" — John Donne
"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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John Donne
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223 Quotes by John Donne
John Donne has 223 quotes on this site.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals…
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church…
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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More Chaste Quotes
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As chaste as unsunned snow.
— William Shakespeare
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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