Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNEFor love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island unto himself.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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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