Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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