I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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