Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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