I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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God 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.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Love 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!
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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