Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEGod 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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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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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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