Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNEI throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
More John Donne Quotes
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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