All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
More John Donne Quotes
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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