In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNEGod employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNEOnly 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.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEAs 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.
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
JOHN DONNEDeath comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNEMan 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.
JOHN DONNENothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNELove is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
JOHN DONNEGod 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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