As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNELove’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Friends are ourselves.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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