No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEAny 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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