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.
JOHN DONNETo be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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