Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEOur two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
More John Donne Quotes
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNE






