Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNETrue 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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