As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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