True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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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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