Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
More John Donne Quotes
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I 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.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE