In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNEHow great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
More John Donne Quotes
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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