So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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