As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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.John Donne
Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it.
John Donne
The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
John Donne
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
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 Donne
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
John Donne
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