As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNEDoth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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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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Friends are ourselves.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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