Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEAs 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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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