Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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