There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNEIf we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
More John Donne Quotes
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Friends are ourselves.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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