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.
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
More John Donne Quotes
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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