Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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 spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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.
JOHN DONNE