If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
More John Donne Quotes
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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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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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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