Friends are ourselves.
JOHN DONNEThe rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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