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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
John DonneJohn Donne Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
John DonneJohn Donne As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
John DonneJohn Donne Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
John DonneJohn Donne Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
John DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
John DonneJohn Donne No man is an island unto himself.
John DonneJohn Donne To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
John DonneJohn Donne In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
John DonneJohn Donne Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John DonneJohn Donne 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.
John DonneJohn Donne Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
John DonneJohn Donne Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
John DonneJohn Donne There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
John DonneJohn Donne I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
John DonneJohn Donne
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Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
John VianneyJohn Vianney The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.
John BrownJohn Brown How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
John VianneyJohn Vianney I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Maria CallasMaria Callas If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
John VianneyJohn Vianney I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
Maria CallasMaria Callas Music attracts the angels in the universe.
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