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.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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