We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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