No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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