Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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In 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.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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