Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
More John Donne Quotes
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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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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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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