We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEHow great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
More John Donne Quotes
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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