I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEAs he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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