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.
JOHN DONNEMan 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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 shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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