As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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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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