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.
JOHN DONNEKeep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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