Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEThere 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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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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