I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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