Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
More John Donne Quotes
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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 shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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