So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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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 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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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE