<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37290" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self-Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE that cannot choose but love,<br>And strives against it still,<br>Never shall my fancy move,<br>For he loves against his will;<br>Nor he which is all his own,<br>And cannot pleasure choose;<br>When I am caught he can be gone,<br>And when he list refuse;<br>Nor he that loves none but fair,<br>For such by all are sought;<br>Nor he that can for foul ones care,<br>For his judgement then is nought;<br>Nor he that hath wit, for he<br>Will make me his jest or slave;<br>Nor a fool when others —<br>He can neither —<br>Nor he that still his mistress prays,<br>For she is thrall'd therefore;<br>Nor he that pays, not, for he says<br>Within, she's worth no more.<br>Is there then no kind of men<br>Whom I may freely prove?<br>I will vent that humour then<br>In mine own self-love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37290" data-title="Self-Love de John Donne" data-description="HE that cannot choose but love,/And strives against it still,/Never shall my fancy move,/For he loves against his will;/Nor he which is all his own,/And cannot pleasure choose;/When I am caught he can be gone,/And when he list refuse;/Nor he that ..."></div> </div> </div>

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