God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNENature hath no goal though she hath law.
More John Donne Quotes
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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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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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Any 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.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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