I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEIn the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
More John Donne Quotes
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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