The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
JOHN DONNE
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
More John Donne Quotes
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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